Michael B. Jordan lands a spot on GQ's Men (and woman) of the Year list. The YBF hottie is GQ's Leader of the Year and he can thank his stellar performance in Black Panther for that. Jordan is back this fall with Creed II, the follow-up to his immensely successful Rocky franchise extension.

In the cover story, MBJ talks about how he hated going up against his peers for roles, but now, things are changing where black people are able to share their stories with the masses.

When there were good parts, he disliked auditioning and seeing kids—his friends—all going up for the same roles. He hated the feeling that the rule of one—there can be only one successful P.O.C. at a time in a white-dominated industry—was at play. “You feel like you're pitted against each other, in hindsight. I was like, ‘Damn! Everybody should be able to, like, work and grow and eat together. We're not. Well, then, I guess there's not enough roles.’ ”

Even then, the solution seemed obvious to Jordan: “I guess the only logical thing to do is to create more roles.”

Jordan says, is getting better for creators of color, “because we're starting to realize our worth more and what we bring to the table.”

While GQ is recognizing this year's top men in excellence, Serena Williams is so bad a** that she landed on the list as the "Woman" of the year. Woot!

She's killing this cover. But of course, folks have something to say. Some are questioning why Woman was written in quotes, and if the mag was questioning her femininity. But in all actuality, it looks like the font used by her friend and Louis Vuitton designer, Off-White creator Virgil Abloh.

No matter how you cut it, Serena Williams had a remarkable year. Jeanne-Marie Laskas visits the G.O.A.T. at her Florida home to hear about the U.S. Open moment heard around the world, along with Serena's plans for the future, her thoughts on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court appointment, and what it's like to be a black woman in America in 2018. All that, plus GQ worked up a special surprise cover collaboration with Virgil Abloh—the Off-White designer behind her coolest on-court looks in 2018—featuring his signature quotation marks in his own handwriting.